Trading places

In honor of the Senate’s approval of drilling in ANWR, I’m re-posting a piece I wrote in the Daily Standard this spring that contains a few paragraphs about this issue. The larger theme is how Democrats and Republicans have traded places when it comes to pragmatism.

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